scholarly journals Book Reviews

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-97
Author(s):  
Karen Charman
Keyword(s):  
Hostile Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Theresa May

Trump, the Alt-right and Public Pedagogies of Hate and for Fascism—What is to be Done?Mike Cole, London, Routledge, 2019 Theresa May, The Hostile Environment and the Public Pedagogies of Hate and Threat—the Case for a Future Without BordersMike Cole, London, Routledge, 2020

Book reviews: Evolutionary studies, a centenary celebration of the life of Julian Huxley

1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-196
Keyword(s):  
Major Part ◽  
Director General ◽  
The Public ◽  
Julian Huxley ◽  
Evolutionary Studies ◽  
Popular Books

Evolutionary studies, a centenary celebration of the life of Julian Huxley . Edited by Milo Keynes & G. Ainsworth Harrison. London: Macmillan, 1989. Pp. 256, £63.00. ISBN 0-333-45723-4 Sir Julian Huxley died in 1975. Although primarily a biologist, his broad social and philosophical interests ensured that he was much in the public eye for the greater part of his life. He was a motivator in the foundation of UNESCO, ensuring that ‘S’ became a major part of its remit, and he became its first Director General. He was a member of the BBC’s extremely popular Brains Trust; he was co-author (with H.G. and Gip Wells) of the seminal Science of life , and author of many ‘popular’ books and articles on scientific, social and philosophical matters.

BOOK REVIEWS

1935 ◽  
Vol 13 (37) ◽  
pp. 46-47
Keyword(s):  
Public Records ◽  
The Public

Abstract Book reviewed in this article: ‘Codex quartus sancti iacobi de expedimento et conversione yspanie etgallecie editus a beato Turpino archiepiscopo.’ Edited by Ward Thoron ‘An Introduction to the use of the Public Records.’ By V. H. Galbraith ‘English Constitutional Documents, 1307–1485.’ Edited by Eleanor C. Lodge, C.B.E., M. A., D. Litt., Litt. D., and Gladys A. Thornton, B. A., Ph.D

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Ian Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
Home Office ◽  
The Real ◽  
Senior Member ◽  
Mental Health Act ◽  
Theresa May

When Theresa May became Prime Minister in July 2016, she made a speech on the steps of Downing Street in which she outlined a series of ‘burning injustices’ her administration would seek to tackle. Many were struck by the irony of this commitment to tackling inequality and disadvantages coming, as it did, from a senior member of the coalition and Conservative governments that since 2010 had introduced a series of policies which had targeted those living in poverty and the most vulnerable. The scandals of the revelation of the real impact of the ‘hostile environment’ created by May’s Home Office and the appalling treatment of the Windrush generation lay ahead. In May 2017, May announced that a review would be undertaken of the ‘flawed’ Mental Health Act (MHA). In making the announcement she stated:...

Delivering a Brexit Deal to the British People: Theresa May as a Reluctant Populist

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatol Stefanowitsch
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
A Priori ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Speech Patterns ◽  
The People ◽  
Widespread Agreement ◽  
British People ◽  
Theresa May

Abstract There is widespread agreement that the so-called ‘Brexit’ – the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union – is a fundamentally populist project. However, the language of the public face of this project, Prime Minister Theresa May, has not, so far, been studied with respect to populist speech patterns. This paper presents a series of quantitative case studies aimed at closing this research gap. The first study attempts to identify evidence of populist speech patterns by means of a keyword analysis, the second study looks at the phrase the (British) people, the third study at the phrase the will of the people, and the fourth at references to the past and the future. While these are based on a priori hypotheses about populist speech patterns, a fifth case study looks at the verb deliver and the noun deal, which are inductively identified as typical of May’s statements concerning Brexit, and shows how they allow May to construct a populist discourse without taking the role of the populist. All case studies are based on a dedicated corpus of almost 270,000 tokens consisting of speeches and other spoken and written statements by Theresa May.

Book Reviews

2005 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 1063-1086
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Value Added ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Book Selection ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Association ◽  
Single Well ◽  
Selection Of

Occasionally, we receive questions regarding the selection of books reviewed in the Journal of Economic Literature. A statement of our guidelines for book selection might therefore be useful. The general purpose of our book reviews is to help keep members of the American Economic Association informed of significant English-language publications in economics research. We also review significant books in related social sciences that might be of special interest to economists. On occasion, we review books that are written for the public at large if these books speak to issues that are of interest to economists. Finally, we review some reports or publications that have significant policy impact. Annotations are published for all books received. However, we receive many more books than we are able to review so choices must be made in selecting books for review. We try to identify for review scholarly, well-researched books that embody serious and original research on a particular topic. We do not review textbooks. Other things being equal, we avoid volumes of collected papers such as festschriften and conference volumes. Often such volumes pose difficult problems for the reviewer who may find herself having to describe and evaluate many different contributions. Among such volumes, we prefer those on a single, well-defined theme that a typical reviewer may develop in his review. We avoid volumes that collect previously published papers unless there is some material value added from bringing the papers together. Also, we refrain from reviewing second or revised editions unless the revisions of the original edition are really substantial. Our policy is not to accept offers to review (and unsolicited reviews of) particular books. Coauthorship of reviews is not forbidden but it is unusual and we ask our invited reviewers to discuss with us first any changes in the authorship or assigned length of a review.

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